The “Great Game” now is competing for the future of cyberspace between democratic and authoritarian governments, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.

CISA director Jen Easterly announced the launch of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) at Black Hat 2021.

“If I had to make a choice between a firewall and an MFA solution I would take the MFA solution,” noted Cisco's Matt Olney.

Businesses are “realizing that this is the nature of the game today that [I will get breached],” Trend Micro's Jon Clay said.

The launch continues the vendor's Connected Security strategy that involves enforcing security policies at every connection point across the network: switches, firewalls, routers, public and private cloud, and endpoints.

Cisco has invested in about 25 cybersecurity companies over the past decade and has an active portfolio of 15 companies.

The bottom line is that the companies that adopted some level of zero trust are in a better position to deal with data breaches, IBM Security's Limor Kessem said.

CISOs now have to “think about how they bring more security to where their people are, instead of moving their people to where the security is,” Cisco’s Dug Song

The deal will allow Sysdig to shift security further left by integrating Apolicy’s infrastructure as code technology into its platform to better secure DevOps workflows.

“Cybersecurity spending remained robust during the pandemic and is set to accelerate this year,” Canalys chief analyst Matthew Ball said.

Hackers, which Microsoft says in high confidence are based in China and have been dubbed DEV-0322, exploited the zero-day CVE-2021-35211 vulnerability.